FarCon the big conference of forward thinking minds has been the big thing this past week or so. I loved this post on Paragraph. It made a lot of sense and I noted quite a few things from it. Some were new things that I’d not heard of and want to dig deeper in order to learn more and some I’d read about a lot of late.
So what piqued my interest most of all? Most of it! I’ve said this before, I feel we are going through the same exciting shift in the web we went through a decade or more ago. Things have become rotten in recent years and I think people have had enough. Engineers and Product Teams are eager to see Web 3 move on from infrastructure into the pockets of the masses.
I wish I live in the USA sometimes, as all of this took place across the pond. No reason why we can’t have the same stuff here in the UK? Or not?
Auth, Graphs, Feeds and Frames
This is my attempt to share my thoughts after attending FarCon '24 last week. I'll briefly cover the conference, the protocol (Farcaster), the ecosystem, etc.
Other fun finds
I thought this was rather sweet. A great story that tells the tale of Jolly; and at the same time is a very good explanation of what NFTs are!
Jolly the NFT
Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Interneticus, there was an ordinary JPEG called Jolly. Jolly was like any other image on the web, copied and past...
I can recall just about a year ago when I was on holiday with my wife Tina in Madeira. I discovered Paragraph after having a play with Mirror (funny how they’ve now teamed up, hey) and preferred the former to the latter. I started writing about Funchal on the platform with a few photos.
I started finding other writers on the platform and discovered Allyn Bryce. He took a hiatus but is now back. He is very much focussed on creating those NFT wotsit-thingyme-bobs and his new project looks very cool.
Interesting to see he is rocking the paid subs thing too; I’m looking into that myself and deciding whether to move over here from Substack and Hive or keep the whole lot going at the same time.
I want your ETH guys. Woah sorry, that sounded bad, half kidding.
WORK DEM BRUSHES, BRUH
First, a little detour. Like the gravity of the sun, the first thing I was pulled towards after installing a few apps was testing out all dem brushes. Gotta work dem brushes, bruh.
This is an interesting point though. The Hive blockchain rewards based on upvotes and with voting trails, I tend to earn not long after my post is published. Substack on the other hand is Web 2 and depends on people seeing the value in your publication that will encourage them to pay good money for it. However there is a bit of friction in doing so, when you may have subbed to countless other Substacks or online services already.
How does Paragraph equate to the above two? That is something I am trying to figure out... maybe in the next issue of this newsletter I'll have an answer.
How do I get into writing code for Web 3? Is there something I could build? I have an itch to build a sound library on chain. Kind of like Sound.cuz but for sample creators, loop packs and drum sounds etc. Maybe a place where you can share your brief audio ideas. I don’t want to pop on Sound.xyz because they are about full length tracks.
JavaScript Web3 Projects - Examples
There are some amazing JavaScript Web3 projects in the blockchain industry. These networks vary from NFT marketplaces to digital storage systems. What all these projects have in common is that they are powered by Lisk.
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I have been getting back into composing my own music a lot this past year, especially since that trip to Funchal where I wrote some tracks on my iPad. The truth is not all of my ideas make it as far as a platform such as Sound.xyz or dare I say it Spitify (sic) who royally shaft all artists for profit. Another reason for Web 3 to garner wider support from the masses.
Anyway earlier this week, I hooked up my keyboard to the modular synth and performed this. If you are a musician this is all in the lovely Dorian scale, root note C.
Please do support it in any way you can.
Other tracks I enjoyed
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Thanks for the mention!
No problem!